PSV is also considered a rival, but in terms of tension and rivalry, these matches are not as loaded as the duels with Feyenoord.

Feyenoord then won their match in Rotterdam 2 – 0, thanks to goals by Wim Rijsbergen and Peter Ressel, and also became the first Dutch team to win the UEFA Cup.

According to chairman of the club Eric Gudde the placing in the more favourable category came earlier than anticipated, he also congratulated the fans and promised to maintain the same policy until Feyenoord was completely healthy again and will never fall back into the first category.

Nowadays the song is heard wherever Feyenoord play their matches, but also fans of MVV and Club Brugge have their own version that they sing.

It also illustrates the intense way in which the Feyenoord supporters experience their club ’ s matches.

Beyond the Netherlands, Feyenoord opened a fanshop in the center of Tokyo, Japan when Japanese player Shinji Ono was a key player at the club, and also in South Korea when Song Chong-Gug played for Feyenoord.

While at Feyenoord he also worked part-time as a scout for Arsenal, watching games in Italy, France, and the Netherlands.

Speculation was rife about Dudek's dissatisfaction with life at Real, and an end-of-season return to Feyenoord where he would work more closely with coach Leo Beenhakker – his former boss at Feyenoord and also at the helm of the Polish national team – was a possibility, but nothing materialised, and with former teammate Jordi Codina leaving to join Getafe CF, the 36-year old eventually accepted a new one-year deal to remain at the club, while also speaking about his contentment.

Best also played in the Dutch Eredivisie for Feyenoord and in the United States for Tampa Bay Rowdies, Toronto Blizzard and Portland Timbers of the North American Soccer League.

During his stay with Feyenoord he also received the league's highest goalkeeping honors, winning the Dutch Keeper Of The Year Award twice ( 1998 – 99, 1999-2000.

The game also includes club emblems for many more European clubs as well as for major Dutch clubs such as PSV, Ajax and Feyenoord, although there was no Dutch league of any kind ( they were under the " Rest of World " header ).

The club is also notable in that former Feyenoord midfielder Shinji Ono began his professional career playing for Urawa.

An extra building was constructed for commercial use by Feyenoord, it also houses a restaurant and a museum, The Home of History.

He was identified as a very promising talent in his childhood, and was selected by Anyang in the 2000 draft following his graduation from Bupyeong High School ( which former Feyenoord player Lee Chun-Soo also attended ).

During his time at Feyenoord, Salomon scored 35 goals in 67 league appearances for the Rotterdam club, and also won an individual award when he won the Johan Cruijff Award in 2005 for being the most promising young talent of that season.

However, he later reconsidered: after an unsuccessful trial with Australian club Perth Glory FC, he signed a one-year deal with Feyenoord Rotterdam, as cover for also recently signed Roy Makaay.

He also spent some time in Europe with Feyenoord, Mouscron and Karlsruhe, before returning to Costa Rica and Saprissa.

In the following ten years, football giants such as Napoli, Feyenoord, Panathinaikos, and Juventus also fell to the blue and white.

Lodewijks signed in 2002 with Feyenoord, playing his first match on 3 November, also in a 2 – 0 success at Groningen.

As of 2012, AZ is the only club to have beaten Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV away from home in a single Eredivisie season.

They have earned this by the transfer of significant players and a large capital injection made by the organisation VVF ( Friends of Feyenoord, Vrienden Van Feyenoord ).

In December 2006, Feyenoord director Chris Woerts announced that Feyenoord were developing plans to build a new stadium which would have a capacity of roughly 90, 000 seats.

Feyenoord supporters are known to be creative and have a lot of various songs and chants in their equipment during matches.

Feyenoord supporters are known to have a connection with fans of English Premier League club, Sunderland AFC.

It is thought to have started in the 1970s when supporters of Sunderland moved to Rotterdam to work in the ports and docks, some of which remained in Rotterdam and settled there, thus taking an interest in the local team, Feyenoord.

Feyenoord have one official fan supporters club, the Feyenoord Supportersvereniging.

A few weeks after the first training but still before the season really starts, the club open their doors for free for all Feyenoord fans to have fun together and to present the squad for the upcoming season.

De Kuip already opens in the morning when there are many activities around the stadium mainly for kids and promotional activities for companies which have a partnership with Feyenoord.

A minute of silence will be held for all former Feyenoord players who have died and for known fans who have died in the previous year.

Raemon Sluiter, Lee Towers, Dennis van der Geest, Robert Eenhoorn and Renate Verbaan have all officially been Feyenoord ambassadors.

While at Feyenoord Gullit became the focus of a race row as manager Thijs Libregts was alleged to have referred to Gullit as " blackie " and criticised him for being lazy, though Libregts defended himself by claiming that it was merely a nickname.

A majority of the Excelsior fans have always been against a partnership with Feyenoord.

: Ajax, Feyenoord, and PSV have been members of the Eredivisie since its formation in 1956.

Feyenoord, Ajax's domestic rivals, are among a group of clubs to have won the tournament once, while Belgium has produced the most individual winners, four, one more than England and Netherlands.

On 20 October 2006 the club signed the Icelandic twins Arnar and Bjarki Gunnlaugsson, who have played for Bolton Wanderers F. C., Stoke City F. C., Feyenoord Rotterdam, 1.

Feyenoord officials have expressed a desire for the new stadium to have a similar atmosphere as the current one.

and later went on to have another trial with a Dutch team, Feyenoord.

There is a rivalry between the teams, mostly between Feyenoord and Sparta as Excelsior can be seen as Feyenoord's feeder club, but it is not comparable to other local derbies.

The rivalry between Sparta and Feyenoord is mostly seen on the Sparta side.

There is nonetheless a big rivalry with Ajax and Feyenoord.

This rivalry is stronger than the one between Feyenoord and Ajax.